NIOSH reports in a science blog on new findings from Michigan State University and the Michigan Department of Community Health on work-related amputations, published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, "the latest in a series of efforts to find better ways to identify work-related injuries and use that information to prevent similar injuries from happening in the future." The work identified 616 work-related amputations in Michigan -- two and a half times more amputations than identified by the national system for tracking workplace injury (616 vs. 250), the blog says.
